London: Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, maps. WAS $100. Richard Sale is one of the world's leading Arctic scholars and explorers and a professional glaciologist. He has written widely on Polar history, exploration and wildlife (including Arctic Odyssey), and in 2003 won the Outdoor Book... More about The Arctic: the complete story

Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Octavo, paperback, WAS $33. Forbidding, vast, spectacular, lonely: each is a word that springs to mind when we think of Antarctica. A world of endless ice, remote mountain ranges, and weather so fierce that only the hardiest of explorers could hope to meet its... More about Life on the ice: no one goes to Antarctica alone